Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 9th Sep 2009 22:29 UTC, submitted by lemur2
Open source 3D graphics drivers for ATI R600 garphics cards has been submitted to the kernel-next tree for possible inclusion in the Linux kernel 2.6.32. "David Airlie has pushed a horde of new code into his drm-next Git tree, which is what will get pulled into the Linux 2.6.32 kernel once the merge window is open. Most prominently, this new DRM code brings support for kernel mode-setting with R600 class hardware as well as 3D support."
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2005-10-13
Agreed, although I'm not quite as pessimistic as you are. I don't think the OSS drivers will ever match AMD/NVIDIA's binary drivers 100%, but I think we could have something by next Christmas that is reasonably full-featured and fast.
I don't think you can necessarily blame the fact that the drivers are OSS for why they have come about so slowly. I mean the NVidia drivers work pretty well, but the ATI ones were horrible for years. And the Intel drivers on Windows were very bad when I tried using them once. I don't think others were much better - I heard terrible things about Matrox's drivers as well. It just takes a lot of time and effort to really optimize your drivers fully for hardware as complicated as a modern graphics card.